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Can California state managers be trusted to keep teleworkers in line?
Debate starts over accountability for teleworkers.
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Feds could have new restrictions on attending conferences
A proposed ethics rule would bar feds from lobbyist-sponsored social events, but it also could inhibit attendance at trade shows and conferences.
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Administration would raise feds' retirement contributions
The Obama administration wants a 1.2 percent increase in federal employees' retirement contributions.
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White House lists new transparency goals
The Obama administration has a national plan for transparency as part of the new Open Government Partnership with 43 other countries.
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OFPP toughens training for contract oversight
OFPP Administrator Dan Gordon is pushing training standards as part of his focus on acquisition workforce and President Barack Obama's procurement memo from 2009.
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Outdated risk-management policies threaten telework
Outdated approaches to managing workplace risk could be the next stumbling block for telework efforts.
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Can working from home reduce the urge to be unethical?
Study says telework makes workers more ethical.
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Peace Corps introduces expanded telework options
Peace Corps leaders expand telework abilities in revised policy.
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DOD nominee promises to find budget cut ideas fast
Ashton Carter tells Senate panel he would try to help avoid 'devastating' effects of forced cuts.
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Workforce largely spared in first super committee session
More than two months remain for the panel to compile recommendations to cut more than $1 trillion from federal spending in the next 10 years.
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Agencies don't account for all program costs, experts say
Auditors at GAO found that several agencies with interagency contracts and those that help with acquisitions don’t carefully account for all the costs of their programs.
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Survey shows people prefer using PCs, Web portals to contact agencies
In a new survey by IDC Government Insights, people picked computers and websites as their preferred mode of interaction with federal agencies.
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Vance Hitch: Secrets of a long-serving government CIO
Vance Hitch, who was the longest-serving CIO at a Cabinet-level agency, reflects on what he learned during his nine-year tenure at the Justice Department.
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Why stability trumps innovation
Federal agencies often seem to discourage employees from taking creative approaches to doing their jobs, FCW readers say.
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The progress principle: How to keep employees on track
A new book's insights into productivity have important implications for supervisors, writes columnist Steve Kelman.
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Senate panel would restore partial funding for DHS projects
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a budget for the Homeland Security Department that would partially restore some funding that had been cut by the House.
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OFPP keeps classic definition of fed-only work
OFPP keeps the inherently governmental function definition 'intimate,' but leaves much discretion about jobs closely associated.
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NOAA to build 'weather-ready' nation
After a record number of weather disasters this year -- including a hurricane and flooding in Washington, D.C. -- the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is amplifying its efforts to improve forecasting and response.
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A nation at war: Taking tech into battle
Gen. Nick Justice says he was forever changed by his days on the ground early in the U.S. military response to the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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